Tuesday, April 24, 2018

WW: Plastic Bags {Linky}

It takes 500 years for a plastic bag to decompose.

This person was covered with plastic bags that just one person used throughout one year. Eye opening, yet sad.

Here in Omaha, Nebraska this is a hot topic. The mayor wants to ban plastic bags. So many people don't get why the ban is needed. If only they did their research. Do you have a ban on plastic bags where you live?

I live in the SF Bay Area and we started it. San Francisco and Alameda Counties (the county I live in) banned plastic bags over five years ago and then in the 2016 election the voters of California approved Prop. 67 which allowed single-use plastic bags effective immediately. One thing in both laws and that is if you forget you bag and need a paper bag, then be prepared to pay a dime for it.

Here in Seattle, WA there is a plastic bag ban. It costs 5 cents to purchase a paper bag. It gets the tourists riled up sometimes, but it does send a message. It works really well here actually, I don't mind it at all. If I get paper bags, I reuse them for recycling. Most people use reusable bag pretty much everywhere. There is very little waste accumulating for as big of a city as Seattle is housing so many people. It is pretty awesome.

We don't have a ban, but almost every supermarket has a recycle spot where you can bring your plastic bags back to be made into new ones.

We always use cloth bags, but I will occasionally get a few to keep on hand to line our small waste baskets with.

When we were in California, we stopped by the grocers to stock our AirBNB with goodies and since we didn't have our own bags, we were charged a small tax or fee for having to get plastic to take our stuff back home in. I think it was like 10¢ per bag or something like that.

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